Is it normal to not care that I might have thyroid cancer?

[Anonymous]

Nodes were found on my thyroid. My mom is freaking out and thinks I have thyroid cancer (she's a nurse who gives chemo). I've been looking up the symptoms and it turns out that I have a lot of them. When my mom told me I couldn't stop laughing. I kept thinking about the scene from Pitch Perfect where the girl has nodes. My mom was really really mad at me. I don't care though. I almost want cancer... it seems like I could finally give up. I'm so exhausted from life. I just want to be done. My mom would obviously want me to get surgeries and chemo if I had cancer but i don't want to. I've seen what it can do and it looks like it makes life harder to live. It just preserves the pain and torture. Do you think I should have the right to end my life? Why or why not? What are symptoms of thyroid cancer? Is it normal to not want to live or am I losing it?

[kittenforever]

Thyroid cancer is not fatal in the majority of cases. It is very rare to die from thyroid cancer. They will remove the rumors and you will be fine. Depending on how large they are you may need take thyroid hormones. I work with two nurses who had thyroid cancer at a young age and they are healthy and fine! Usually they don't do chemo or radiation just remove the tumors in a quick surgery.

A hockey player named Olli Maatta recently had thyroid tumors removed and he is only 20. He was back to playing hockey in two weeks and healthy again. I highly doubt you will need chemo.

Good luck to you! Just get the surgery over with and you will be fine :)

[Anonymous]

thyroid cancer can be treated and it's not hard to, from what i heard it just need one chemo session... why would you want to give up? haven't you ever thought about achieving something or have you thought about your family and friend, everyone will found that he/she is loved by some people... life is hard but we need to fight back... while you are fighting you will have so much fun, pridge, memories

[275153]

What you are feeling is your defense mechanism trying to protect you from stress. You'll regret not getting medical attention.